Munich Chain Ladder: A Reserving Method that Reduces the Gap between IBNR Projections Based on Paid Losses and IBNR Projections Based on Incurred Losses

Abstract

“Munich Chain Ladder” by Dr. Quarg and Dr. Mack is
being reprinted in Variance to give this important paper
wider visibility within the actuarial community. The editors
of Variance invited the authors to submit their paper
for republication because we believe that the techniques
described in their work should be known to all actuaries
doing reserve analysis. We also hope to stimulate further
research in this area. This paper is reprinted from Blätter
der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Versicherungs- und Finanzmathematik,
volume 26, number 4, 2004, pages 597—630.
We thank the editors of that journal and the authors for
allowing Variance to publish the paper.

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